How many things I can do without!

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house